Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (82) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 3 of 82 Results →
  • 2000
  • Working Paper

The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America

By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have... View Details
Related
  • 22 Oct 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Abhinav Gupta, Foster School of Business, University of Washington

  • TeachingInterests

Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details

  • 2021
  • Chapter

The Economic and Political Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration

By: Marco Tabellini
Between 1850 and 1920, during the Age of Mass Migration, more than 30 million Europeans moved to the United States. European immigrants provided ample supply of cheap labor as well as specific skills and know-how, contributing to American economic growth. These... View Details
Keywords: Age Of Mass Migration; Political Ideology; Political Economy; Assimilation; Immigration; Economics; History; United States
Related
  • 9 May 2011 - 11 May 2011
  • Conference Presentation

How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure

By: Anil Doshi, Michael Toffel and Glen W. S. Dowell
When new institutional pressures arise, which organizations are particularly likely to resist or acquiesce? When subjected to new information disclosure mandates, an increasingly popular form of market-based government regulation, which types of organizations are... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Related
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
Related
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

"we have a bigger budget than expected." So the additional dollar was perceived as a gift, Malhotra said. "Those who were promised $3 but then later were given an additional $1 worked significantly harder than the other two groups," he said. "We attribute this to the... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
  • 21 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney
  • 29 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

others who earn a higher pay rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat.... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

posts. Those who voted for a candidate other than the one they originally planned did so only when new information emerged about the candidates or new issues gained salience during the campaign. Debates didn’t shift elections’ outcomes.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 24 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

interventions that help us cultivate the good ones.” Related Reading: The Business of Behavioral Economics Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia The Role of Incentive Salience in Habit Formation What do you think... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

  Working PapersAn Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s Author:Diego A. Comin No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-065.pdf (When) Are Religious People Nicer? Religious View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

works published on their economic history. (When) Are Religious People Nicer? Religious Salience and the 'Sunday Effect' on Pro-social Behavior Author: Deepak Malhotra Publication: Judgment and Decision Making (in press) Abstract Prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

the salience of ethnicity in a country like Kenya that has experienced significant recent racial tension—and may not necessarily be as strong in a country like the United States or France. Even so, these trends are worth keeping in mind... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings Authors:Michael Luca and Jonathan Smith... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

whether the reviewers are certified as "elite" by Yelp, but is unaffected by the size of the reviewers' Yelp friends network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-016.pdf Salience in Quality Disclosure:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

Such changes did not occur in the case of honest behavior or consideration of the dishonest behavior of others. In addition, increasing moral saliency by having participants read or sign an honor code significantly reduced unethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity-that is, by patterns of prior foundings, of support from related markets, and of institutional activism in a given sector. Building on research on social salience and signals, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel